Re: Gtk2::ComboBox with a dummy entry

["Matthew Braid" <ptkperl mdb id au>]

Hmm, didn't think of a tooltip - that just might work :)

Ta,
MB

On 1/30/07, A. Pagaltzis <pagaltzis gmx de> wrote:
> * Matthew Braid <ptkperl mdb id au> [2007-01-30 12:30]:
> > Its actually a request from 'on-high' - apparently the menu
> > button I _was_ using didn't 'fit in' with other combo boxes on
> > the same screen.
>
> You have my condolences…
>
> > I'd be more than happy with a 'its not possible' answer - much
> > less work for me. And then I can point to it and say 'smarter
> > people than I told me so' ;)
>
> Well, I doubt it's completely impossible, but noone envisioned a
> need for such controls so you'll have to build up behaviour from
> scratch for at least *some* part of it.
>
> I'd tell your bosses it will probably take inordinate amounts of
> time (expensive up-front), the result will likely be be buggy for
> unusual ways of interacting with the control (unpredictable
> additional debugging costs), and you will have to maintain the
> code forever after (ongoing upkeep cost). If that doesn't
> dissuade them, I don't know what will. :-)
>
> If they don't want a label on the form because it would break the
> look of the interface, and they really don't want the button, I'd
> say ask them if a combobox with a tooltip wouldn't suffice.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
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